all about a seeking soul. All He needs, remember, is a willing worker. The girl explained further, “Three months ago, as I was sitting in my university lecture hall in Germany studying geol ogy, I arrived at a point of complete despair. I told God that I wasn’t sure He existed. I asked Him to reveal the truth about Himself. I warned him, ‘God, if you don’t do this in three months I’m going to throw up my studies, leave the university, and take my own life.’ Mrs. Briscoe, the three months I gave God to show Himself to me will be over tomorrow.” Isn’t that interesting? Are you letting the Lord work through you? All about are seeking souls who need Christ as Saviour. * * * The Bible that it falling apart utually belongs to a person who isn't. * * * Members of the Biola staff in LaMiradameet
EXPENDABLE FOR GOD It was Jim Elliot, martyred for Christ among the Auca savages of Ecuador more than ten years ago, who declared, “He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? O Lord, deliver me from the dread asbestos of other things.” Jim w a s completely flamable, in that metaphor, and as a result he, with his four companions, one of whom was a Biola School of Missionary Medicine graduate, gave their lives for the furtherance of the Gospel. As a result, toda/y the Aucas not only have heard the news of Christ, most of them accepting Him as Sav iour, but also have a portion of the Word of God in their own language. JOY IN SORROW On Biola's recent tour to Europe and the Holy Land, people were impressed by the lavish decorations on the tower of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. This was done many years ago by Sir James Thornhill. It was necessary to do his work while he was standing on a swing ing scaffold far above the ground. As he finished a particularly intricate detail one day, he stepped back to examine the results of his painstaking effort. Slowly he moved backward for a bet ter perspective. An associate nearby looked up just in time to see what was happening and realized that should Thornhill take one more step backward he would crash to the earth and die. Yet, if he shouted out a warning, this might frighten him and the same dis aster would result. On a sudden im pulse he took a paint brush and made a sweeping stroke across the exquisite work Thornhill was admiring. The ar tist jumped forward with a cry of dis may, but his life was saved. You can imagine how grateful he was when he learned the reason for the seeming destructive turn. You know, sometimes the Lord allows difficulties to come into our lives, not to hurt us, but rather to draw us closer to the Saviour. The waves of trouble may roll over us, not to drown us, but that we may rely more wholly upon Him. Listen to this blessed promise from Scripture. “Weep ing may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.” 7
with several members of the Arizona Bible College administration. Seated are Mr. Paul W. Schwepker (left), vice president and treas urer of Biola, and Mr. Robert Boles, a recent addition to the ABC staff both on the faculty and also as business manager. Mr. Boles is a graduate of Biola College and Talbot Theologi cal Seminary and has gone through school in a wheel chair. Standing are Mr. James Bram- er, Biola controller, and Mr. Merv Fishback, executive administrator of ABC.
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